The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, warned this Monday that he will go to the Judiciary to convey to its top officials the situation that the city is going through after the massive entry of immigrants on July 30 and 31, given the "passivity" of the Government in responding to the crisis.
In a press conference after the meeting of the Ceuta Executive, Vivas explained that he will request to be received by the president of the Supreme Court, María Isabel Perelló, and by the president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, to inform them that Ceuta "is in danger."
He has clarified that he does not intend to interfere in the independence of the Judiciary, but rather to bring the situation of the city to its highest officials.
Vivas has insisted that the situation in the autonomous city continues to be far from normal and that he still does not know how many of the 80,000 people who entered irregularly remain in Ceuta and how many return or expulsion proceedings have been initiated.
The president of Ceuta has denounced a "lack of adequate response" from the Government of Spain towards "a part of Spain that has been attacked in its territorial integrity" and recalled that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, himself, described Ceuta as a territory in a "high risk" situation.
He has accused Pedro Sánchez's Executive of having tried to "make up reality" during the first days of August by stating that the city had returned to normality in 48 hours and that only about 2,500 people remained of the nearly 80,000 who had entered.
"Normality can only be achieved through the return to Morocco of all those who, illegally, disturbed order and entered our city," he maintained.
Nor, he added, does the Ceuta Government know what measures are going to be adopted to "shield" the border or to reactivate the city economically and emotionally.
Vivas has defended that the State has sufficient means and capabilities to return to Morocco, within the law, the adults who entered on July 30 and 31 and believes that it can be done within a period of 30 days.
According to their estimates, fifty officials dedicated to processing files could carry out about fifteen a day each, which would mean 750 files a day. Working five days a week there would be 3,750 files per week and about 15,000 per month. "This is not a mission impossible. This rather seems like a lack of will," he concluded.
For what he considers a lack of action by the Government, Vivas has stated that it may be due to "ineptitude", "irresponsibility" by not giving importance to the fact that "our territorial integrity is violated" or "to not bother" Morocco, "to maintain what is considered pseudo good relations."
He has asked that the State act with "firmness and forcefulness" in the face of a "hypothetical plan" by Morocco that aims to "hit Ceuta successively until the definitive fall of Ceuta."
The president of Ceuta has demanded a change of attitude from both the Spanish Government and Morocco and has trusted that the neighboring country will collaborate "sincerely" in the repatriations of adults and minors.
Vivas has assured that, despite what he considers a feeling of abandonment, Ceuta "is not going to give up" and that, in addition to the Judiciary, he will go to other institutions such as the Cortes Generales, the autonomous communities, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces or business organizations and unions to convey the situation in Ceuta to them.
